ATTACKED BY SUBMARINE PIRATE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2394, 25 February 1915, Page 5

ATTACKED BY SUBMARINE PIRATE

ANOTHER NORWEGIAN STEAMER SUNK FRENCH WARSHIP SINKS A SUBMARINE SHARP FIGHTING I FLANDERS RUSSIAN COUNTER - STROKE Incidents'rf , the piratical blockade war'initiated by the Germans continue to feature the war' news. To-day there is reported the narrow escape of the Folkestone-Boulogne 'cross-Channel packet from a German submarine, whose torpedo mis sod its mark by 30 yards. Another Norwegian steamer has been. sunk) and also a British collier. A French warship.is officially stated to hare engaged and presumably, sunk one of the enemy's submarines. German air raiders have been sighted off the East Coast of England. The expedient of naval convoys for" - Scandinavian merchant ships is to be given a trial, so it is understood." In the Western theatre' there have been attacks and ' counter-attacks in Flanders, and a continuation of the siege war else- . where along the 600-mile battle-front of the Allies. The, German offensive in East;Prussia,has fallen short, we' are told, but the Ger- '' mans themselves seem to think that there are substantial grounds for much rejoicing and braggadocio. In the meantime the Russian coun-ter-stroke has begun, and subsequent .events .will be of compelling The naval operations of the Allies m the Dardanelles have been interrupted by heavy gales; recent events sustain the contention of competent observers that a big offensive-has been mapped out. The Goeben and her Turkish consorts have returned to port in a "badly battered condition, but how they sustained the battering is not indicated. Sir Edward Grey haa written a letter to the ohairman of the Belgian Commission which indicates that, if Germany does not re- 1 cede from the attitude she has taken up in regard to the food supply subvention, the conditions of the starving Belgians will be pitiable ,-indeed. Anti : Gennan riots have occurred in Milan, where feeling in favour of intervention runs high. . ,